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$50.00
1y96a/17

A Very Gallant Gentleman


BERNACCHI, L. C.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, purple buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy fading to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters, item between pgs 10-11 missing)

PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1933

KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir L E G Oates military history

$45.00
1y96a/21

Memoirs of a Slave-Trader


CANOT, THEODORE & MAYER, BRANTZ & LAWRENCE, A. W. (Eds)

Octavo, yellow buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 248pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: George Newnes N/D

KEYWORDS: Theodore Canot autobiography memoir slavery slave trade history traders

$50.00
1y96a/22

In Darkest England and the Way Out


GENERAL BOOTH [WILLIAM]

Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, folding colour chart/frontispiece, 285pp + xxxi appendices, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's embossed name to ffep, light foxing to prelims, some minor closed tearing to folding frontis/chart at gutter, sl water staining to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army N/D (c.1890?)

KEYWORDS: history Salvation Army England religion religious organisations charity charities Christianity

$50.00
1y96a/30

Under the Bloody Flag: Pirates of the Tudor Age


APPLEBY, JOHN C.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The History Press 2009

KEYWORDS: first edition piracy pirates tudor English history maritme nautical crime British Isles

$300.00
1y96a/33

The Building of Britain and the Empire: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day


Illustrated Edition

TRAILL, H.D. & MANN, J.S. (eds.)

LOVELY 6-VOLUME SET WITH OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF SIR JOSEPH G. WARD, 17TH PRIME MINISTER OF NEW ZEALAND; imperial octavo, black leather boards, gilt lettering + gilt stamped decoration + gilt bands w/ raised leather bands to spine, gilt + blind stamped rule to both boards + gilt decoration to internal board edges, aeg, coloured eps, frontispiece, vol. 1: xcvi + 702pp, vol. 2: liii + 800pp, vol. 3 liv + 800pp, vol. 4: lv + 804pp, vol. 5: lii + 864pp, vol. 6: lix + 1059pp, illus + plates, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine + extrems w/ some surface loss/, fading to spines, mild rubbing to boards, prev owner's stamps to fep and/or prelims, prev owner's name in ink to prelims, cracking to front gutter of vol. 1, 1 plate from vol. 1 detached but present, 1 illus. from vol. 5 cut out, mild foxing to tissue guards throughout

PUBLISHER: The Waverley Book Company 1909

KEYWORDS: history england english britain british empire joseph g ward

$18.50
xxkle179880

They Gave Us Rugby: The beginning of New Zealand rugby and New Zealand secondary school rugby from its origins at Nelson College


TURLEY, ALAN

Super octavo softcover w/ french flaps (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Nelson College 1996

KEYWORDS: rugby football sport sports history new zealand nelson college

$15.00
xxkle179886

Grafton Cemetery


O'LEARY, MICHAEL

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo stapled wrappers (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Michael O'Leary / Parks & Recreation Dept. of Auckland City Council, undated

KEYWORDS: signed grafton cemetery history new zealand auckland

$30.00
xxkle179890

The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: movements, histories & motivations


LOWERS, DAVID E.

Super octavo softcover (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Fernwood Publishing 2006

KEYWORDS: anti-capitalism anticapitalism marxism marxist anarchism anarchist decolonisation decolonization politcs political history anti-imperialism antiimperialism anti-imperialist

$35.00
xxzed1798967

1st Battalion, The New Zealand Regiment (1957-1959) Association: The First of the First, 50th Anniversary


CLAMP, BRIAN & CLAMP, DOREEN (complied by) & FORSYTH, JANE (ed.) & ASH, ADRIAN (graphics) & BELL, NOEL (cartoons)

Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Class Printers, undated [ca. 2007]

KEYWORDS: 1st battalion new zealand regiment assosication military history RNZIR cold war malaya

$27.50
xxzed179897

The Day Guernica Died


THOMAS, GORDON & MORGAN-WITTS, MAX

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1975

KEYWORDS: guernica spanish civil war military history first edition

$22.50
xxzed179899

Travelling to New Zealand: An Oxford Anthology


WEVERS, LYDIA (ed)

Small quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: new zealand travel writing travelling traveling anthony trollope mark twain paul theroux history

$22.50
xxzah179903

Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa


URDRANG, STEPHANIE J.

Octavo softcover (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Monthly Review Press 2017

KEYWORDS: apartheid south africa stephanie urdrang activism women's movement colonialism decolonisation decolonization history

$17.50
xxzah179908

Egmont: The Story of a Mountain


SCANLAN, A.B.

Octavo hardcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1961

KEYWORDS: Egmont new zealand tarnaki history mountaineering

$27.50
xxzac179917

The Monkey Puzzle: A Family Tree


GRIBBIN, JOHN & CHERFAS, JEREMY

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1982

KEYWORDS: anthropology human history apes biology monkeys

$38.50
xxzac179918

Further Maoriland Adventures of J. W. and E. Stack


REED, A. H. (Ed) & AVERILL, ARCHBISHOP (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: A. H. and A. W. Reed 1938

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maoriland J W E Stack history

$15.00
xxzbg179932

The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth


BRANDON, S. G. F.

EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: B. T. Batsford 1968

KEYWORDS: religion religious history Jesus Christianity trial Pontius Pilate Romans

$20.00
xxzca179945

Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam


PIKE, DOUGLAS

EXTENSIVE ANNOTATION, UNDERSCORING & HIGHLIGHTING BY AUTHOR WES DAVIS, super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 1967

KEYWORDS: South Vietnam Viet Cong history nlf national liberation front

$22.50
xxzca179947

Tocqueville on American Character


LEDEEN, MICHAEL A.

SOME HIGHLIGHTING & PENCIL ANNOTATION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Truma Talley/St Martin's Press 2000

KEYWORDS: Alexis de Tocqueville US American philosophy America history historical literature

$24.50
xxzca179952

The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969


JOHNSON, LYNDON BAINES

Super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1971

KEYWORDS: US America American politics political history modern Lyndon Baines Johnson

$18.50
xxzcb179954

The Final Days


WOODWARD, BOB & BERNSTEIN, CARL

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster 1976

KEYWORDS: US America American political history politics Nixon watergate presidency presidents

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